Boing Boing Sucks
I’m starting to really resent Boing Boing for taking up so much space in my aggregator. I kept it there begrudgingly, for the dwindling handful of interesting posts that I’d probably hear about elsewhere anyway. But for every interesting post, there are ten totally boring posts about DRM, ten totally boring posts about Disney, ten totally boring posts about a useless toy, and ten totally boring posts about how to turn your lawnmower into, I don’t know, a GPS lawnmower or something. Not to mention their smug self-absorption, and their inability to separate entertainment from politics. As an example of the latter, this recent post describes an anti-Bush Robin Williams movie as “look[ing] like a hell of a movie.” In fact, the movie looks shitty, but because it lambasts politics, it is heralded by Boing Boing.
And now I’m reminded of the time during the World Cup that they said this:
I don’t even know what the FIFA World Cup is. I’m guessing it’s soccer, which I hate just as much as any other pro sport. Every editor at Boing Boing detests professional sports, and we would sooner stream a video of a crumpled up paper napkin in the corner of a room than show some jackasses running after a ball. The only time we would ever post anything about pro-sports would be to make fun of them.
Are you so self-righteous that you think we care about how much you hate sports, while at the same time you worship all things Disney fer chrissake?
And why do you force your readers to use Google to search your site, yielding unorganized heaps of results? And why do you force your readers to blog about you in Technorati-registered blogs in order to “comment” on your posts?
I’ve had enough, I’ll just have to get by without that weekly interesting post about a glowing fish or something.
I hear where this is coming from. I disagree that the DRM/GPS stuff is boring, but Disney sucks (I can’t understand why they can’t see that, and sometimes I fantasize that they’re just a bunch of corporate puppets), and you’re right on about the politics…
its 2009 and boingboing still sucks.
LOL
Yeah screw u boing
Stupid cracka bitch. He dont get dis.
boingboing removed my comment even though it was not offensive or obscene in any way. they removed it because it pointed out how stupid their contest was.
fuck them. corporate whores.
i checked and it wasn’t just my comment that got removed:
here is my coment:
monkeyboy77 | October 22, 2009 1:13 AM | Reply
I agree with SirWompus. The Altoids flashlight is in no way worthy of any award.
Him winning the contest shows they weren’t very good at getting people to enter their contest.
A flashlight? Seriously? a flashlight?
Come on now, they have to be kicking themselves for not having enough real submissions and having to give an award to a kid for making a flashlight.
Take a look at the other winners to get an idea of why they had to give an award (7th place) for a flashlight.
http://digitalopen.org/
A quick search shows that making a flashlight is expected from 4th graders. (9 and 10 year olds)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4966&page=68
(search the page for “flashlight”)
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and here is another comment after mine that they removed:
Author Profile Page ZoopyFunk | October 22, 2009 7:48 AM |
This comment will self-destruct in …
To quote the disclaimer text just above the comment box…“Please don’t cuss or harass other commenters!”
Its now clear who that applies to, and who it doesn’t.
To celebrate my last comment evar on BB (due to Xeni’s calous comment above, just can’t take the BBBullshit treatment of free speech anymore) I must warn you all, you just can’t speak your mind. A few of you are in dangerous waters, and should expect a harsh reprimand, at the very least! You just can’t express your feelings. Don’t you all get it? Its glowing compliments only, people!
I and a great number of my compatriots)(and, btw, we were all long time readers, some from the zine era) had quite a brew ha ha last night to discuss something that has been bothering us for some time. The environment/atmosphere here has just become something…well…unwonderful(you all noticed that BB no longer claims to be “a directory of wonderful things’, because it insults its most loyal viewers.
Its just far far too easy to take our clicks elsewhere.
Seacrest out.
Hey monkeyboy — in an unfortunate bit of irony, your last comment was marked as spam by Akismet! AUTOMATTIC IS NEXT.
Good to know BB still sucks in 2009, I love that this 3-year-old blog post is the go-to place for people who have some beef with them.
Although they have every right to delete all the comments they want, I don’t think anybody can deny that it’s just plain lame.
it’s 2009 and they still suck. BB Newbs like me don’t even know what the site was like when it was good (was it ever?). These days they are just re-blogging shit I saw on other sites 4 days ago. And that Xeni whore is just obnoxious.
I stopped reading BB about a year ago due to all of the above PLUS all of the recent sexism spilling off their pages. I read BB every morning for years, then every month or two, and now, basically, not at all.
I really miss the old BB. What, there’s nothing else wonderful under the sun anymore? I don’t believe it for a second.
Yep. Still sucks. It’s a pity because boing used to be great(a long time ago). Now it’s just:
1. girls with ukeleles(or some other recent fetish)
2.crap that gets posted because it fits with the politics of the author. If Glenn Beck was pro-creative commons boing would post how fantastic his ideas are.
3. articles about how fantastic x or y product is, because they obviously get a reduction if they write a positive article.
2010 and the Suck continues (for a little while) .….
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